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Is it worthwhile to point out that you are receiving X amount of aide at School A, in hopes of getting an equal amount of aide when you transfer to School B? How often do schools award $$$ to transfer students?

I don't think transferring works like this. It isn't like with regular admissions where you can try to get schools to match scholarships. I've never heard of any transfer student getting scholarship money at their new 2L school. I think some schools give need-based aid though.

Well that would suck to give up a full ride or even 1/2 scholly at a lower ranked school just to go to a better ranked school (depending on the school of course). Would they even consider it if you were say top 10% or even top 5% in your class?

E pluribus unum wrote:Well that would suck to give up a full ride or even 1/2 scholly at a lower ranked school just to go to a better ranked school (depending on the school of course). Would they even consider it if you were say top 10% or even top 5% in your class?

At a lot of schools, you need to have that rank just to have the chance to transfer, so I don't see why they'd offer a scholarship on top of that.

I've heard of 1 case where SLS offered our #4 ranked student half tuition to transfer. My school is a high T2. It sounds crazy (especially coming from Stanford), but I guess this student was a veteran and had a lot of experience in the Navy before coming to law school. I guess some softs matter...

darkatillam2 wrote:I've heard of 1 case where SLS offered our #4 ranked student half tuition to transfer. My school is a high T2. It sounds crazy (especially coming from Stanford), but I guess this student was a veteran and had a lot of experience in the Navy before coming to law school. I guess some softs matter...